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Sleepless Years (1959)
Directed by Félix Máriássy
Overview
The “sleepless years” in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and fascists, more or less in that exact chronological sequence. The heavy-handed approach does much to undercut the belief that when socialism finally takes over, the lives of the workers are brought up to a human level. In this instance, audiences might prefer a more nuanced and subtle statement, no matter what the message.
Length 107 minutes
Actors
Éva Ruttkai | Géza Tordy | Éva Vass | Gábor Agárdi | Törőcsik Mari | Avar István | Gobbi Hilda | Oszkár Ascher | Zoltán Makláry | Gyula Bakos | Béla Barsi | Gyula Bodrogi | Lajos Boray | Elma Bulla | Ferenc Deák B. | Sándor Deák | József Fonyó | Zoltán Gera | György Gonda | János Gosztonyi | Pálma Gyimesi | László Hlatky | János Horkay | József Horváth | Inke László | József Kautzky | Kelemen Éva | Mária Keresztessy | Erzsi Lengyel | Mária Majláth | János Makláry | László Misoga | Mádi Szabó Gábor | László Márkus | Viola Orbán | Sándor Pethes | Sándor Peti | Piri Peéry | János Pásztor | Blanka Péchy | János Rajz | Gellért Raksányi | István Rozsos | Sándor Siménfalvy | Irén Sitkey | Bertalan Šolti | Lajos Sugár | Ernö Szabó | András Tassy | Temessy Hédi | Sándor Tompa | Árpád Téry | Ferike Vidor | József Vándor | Ferenc Zenthe | Judit Zsolnai